Miguel Muelle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Rafael Kubelik Conducts Gustav Mahler's Last Works
>Sym. 9
>Das Lied von der Erde
>Janet Baker
>Waldemar Kmentt
>Bavarian Symphony Orchestra ORIGINALS (#799 out of 3000 made)
>
>I love Kubelik, but when I saw Janet Baker I figured I needed to get
>this CD. I only found one reference to it on the Web, at Thierry Vagne's
>Kubelik site, http://vagne.free.fr/kubelik/Mahler1.htm and it sounds quite
>favorable.
>
>Can anyone else tell me what I am in for?

I have the same box and of the two performances I like Das Lied better,
although the symphony is also good.  The symphony is the same performance
released on Audite 95.471, recorded in Tokyo on 4 June 1975.  The Audite
issue has better sound and comes from the original NHK master tapes (I
believe the Originals issue comes from a broadcast).  I am almost certain
that Audite will release this performance of Das Lied as well (maybe they
have already?), but I have not yet seen it.

Ramon Khalona